The activities in this Curriculum Guide support the Common Core State Standards in Language Arts & Math grades K-1. They reinforce Language Arts skills including; Word Work, Vocabulary Acquisition, Comprehension Strategies: compare and contrast, inferencing, recalling information, retelling and sequencing events, writing narrative, informational and persuasive accounts and Math Skills in counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in base ten, geometry, and real-world problem solving.